I saw on DVD a few weeks ago, When Nietzsche Wept.
Not one of the best movies I have ever seen, still, a movie I very much got into such that I watched it again the very next night.
Back in my teens I was a big Doors fan, read a Jim Morrison bio, which led me to Nietzsche, as Jim Morrison apparently read and lived a bit of Nietzsche this and that. At 17-18 I didn't even really know what philosophy was, and, well, particularly at that age, reading Nietzsche was like having many tectonical shifts to me and my body/psyche.
...There is plenty in what Nietzsche has said/written that I have not subscribed to, but I do return to this or that volume I have of his from time-to-time. All the same, not really knowing much about the person, his life, and history, I never saw really anything that was attractive enough for me to want to look more into his life.
And then I saw When Nietzsche Wept.
Although it is a movie based on a novel, therefore a work which is a piece of fiction, it nonetheless takes together what it seems to be some very important and factual points in a period of his life, and tries to bring a little more light as to the man and his views.
Probably the single most important fact that I did not know about, and which this movie brought to light, was a relationship Nietzsche had with a very notable woman of the time, Lou Salome. ...Suffice it to say, rather than outline any more of the stories here, I highly recommend anyone who is familiar with Nietzsche to see the movie, while I leave you with this photo, a photo I knew nothing about until this movie, a photo staged apparently by Nietzsche that nevertheless sheds a tremendous amount of light on the man who is otherwise widely and seriously misunderstood:
people.tribe.net/fuzzynath...a8313fcbbb
Not one of the best movies I have ever seen, still, a movie I very much got into such that I watched it again the very next night.
Back in my teens I was a big Doors fan, read a Jim Morrison bio, which led me to Nietzsche, as Jim Morrison apparently read and lived a bit of Nietzsche this and that. At 17-18 I didn't even really know what philosophy was, and, well, particularly at that age, reading Nietzsche was like having many tectonical shifts to me and my body/psyche.
...There is plenty in what Nietzsche has said/written that I have not subscribed to, but I do return to this or that volume I have of his from time-to-time. All the same, not really knowing much about the person, his life, and history, I never saw really anything that was attractive enough for me to want to look more into his life.
And then I saw When Nietzsche Wept.
Although it is a movie based on a novel, therefore a work which is a piece of fiction, it nonetheless takes together what it seems to be some very important and factual points in a period of his life, and tries to bring a little more light as to the man and his views.
Probably the single most important fact that I did not know about, and which this movie brought to light, was a relationship Nietzsche had with a very notable woman of the time, Lou Salome. ...Suffice it to say, rather than outline any more of the stories here, I highly recommend anyone who is familiar with Nietzsche to see the movie, while I leave you with this photo, a photo I knew nothing about until this movie, a photo staged apparently by Nietzsche that nevertheless sheds a tremendous amount of light on the man who is otherwise widely and seriously misunderstood:
people.tribe.net/fuzzynath...a8313fcbbb
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